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Senior Management Accountant

Employer: Michael Page Finance
Location: England, Hampshire, Gosport
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Closing date: Jul 19, 2019

Job Role: Management Accountant
Sector: FMCG & CPG
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

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The overall purpose of this position is to act as a Business Partner controlling and reporting on the financial and operational performance of the business in an accurate and timely manner, while providing financial analysis to facilitate strategic decision making to senior management.

Client Details

Our clients are global specialists in packaging for food and drink, dedicated to making every consumer experience enjoyable, consistent, and safe.

Description

Main Responsibilities

Management accounting, Reporting & Control

To manage the management accountant position and current tasks

To prepare monthly and weekly operational management information as required

To produce the monthly management reporting pack for management review in a timely and accurate manner ensuring full commentary on variances to budget and forecast are explained

To provide analysis of financial and operating performance and to develop financial and operational reporting as required.

To manage inventory, accuracy of quantities, valuation and revaluation, provision levels in line with group policy and actively work with the business to manage and reduce risk. Clearly identifying variances and drivers of these variances and reporting them as required. Ensuring that reconciliations of respective balance sheet accounts are produced on a monthly basis for review

To provide sales analysis, including insightful trends and variances, discounts and other drivers impacting revenue.

To monitor, calculate and report benefits of business initiatives in terms of cost out and business improvements, against budget and to provide insightful information on performance, providing monthly forecasts of such initiatives.

To calculate recovery rates for budget and standard costing, clearly demonstrating movements to actuals and analysing the key drivers of the change.

Forecasting and budgeting recovery levels and differentials to enable business management decisions.

To manage, report, budget and forecast working capital with clear explanations and highlighting issues and variances providing insightful improvement options.

To prepare and submit financial information to the Group upon management approval

To prepare budgets and forecasts in line with business and Group requirements.

To develop, control and update product costs, sales estimates and standard costing

To assist with the preparation of statutory financial information, for reporting and audit.

To assist with the review and development of financial and business systems.

To identify any potential operational efficiencies and improvements to working practices and procedures

Ensuring capitalization of assets is maintained including fixed asset and Right of use, in line with group policy, providing relevant data for reporting purposes, audits, budgets and forecasts. Completing full reconciliations on a monthly basis to maintain integrity.

To maintain financial controls within the business.

To prioritize workload to ensure that the competing demands of the organization are met.

To instill, promote and maintain working relationships with all levels of management and employees.

To assist with and complete adhoc task as requested

Other Responsibilities

To have a good knowledge and understanding of the Company's disciplinary and grievance procedures and where acting under these guidelines be able to provide supporting evidence.

To adhere to the requirements of the Data Protection Act in respect of confidentiality and disclosure of personal data

To be aware and to adhere to all Company polices at all times

To be aware of general responsibilities as set out in the Health and Safety Policy.

To carry out performance reviews and appraisals in accordance with company procedure

Profile

The successful candidate will:

Have people management experience
Be Hands On
Have Manufacturing experience
Have lots of Cost Accounting experience - ideally from FMCG background
Be a Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job Offer

A competitive salary with benefits is on offer the right candidate.

Company

Michael Page specialises in the permanent, temporary and interim recruitment of qualified accountants. In fact, our organisation was founded to provide selection and recruitment services for accounting professionals and has been a market leader in this field for more than 35 years.

We have earned the trust of clients in industry and commerce, the banking and financial services markets and the public and not-for-profit sector. We also have an exemplary track record of completing assignments for everyone from small, boutique practices to the Big Four firms.

Many of our consultants have a background in accounting and finance – that’s real, grass roots expertise at your disposal. Combine that with the global reach you get from a company that has over 155 offices in 36 countries and you’re looking at a pretty formidable package. We are confident no other consultancy is better qualified to help you make that crucial, next step in your career.

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